Mountain Lion has been downloaded 7 million times

The CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, announced today at the launch of the iPhone 5 that its new operating system, OS X Lion Mountain, has been downloaded 7 million times since it was made available, on July 25 last .

Version 10.8 of the platform costs $19 each copy.

Cook also said the company’s notebooks are the “number one in market share in the last three months in the United States”, with 27% market share. There was no indication of where did this figure.